Chapter 25: The Beauty
After entering Guozi School, Li Xi's life became leisurely and comfortable.
Every morning at three o'clock, that is, the future generations get up at six o'clock in the morning, it is said that this is also the time for small white-collar workers to get up in later generations, even earlier than that, the current Li Xi does not need to get up so early, but the problem is that there are a lot of entertainment means at night in the later generations to delay time, here, Li Xi does not raise any singers or the like in this small courtyard, there is no entertainment, and there are no women around, this staying up late naturally becomes a painful thing, so he simply goes to bed early and gets up early.
I got up at three o'clock in the morning, and after washing up, I first had breakfast, and then Li Xi had to read a book for half an hour.
When he was in Shuzhou, Li Xi had seen the knowledge of people in this era, not to mention others, it was a girl born as a singer in Wu Ji, who was well-read, and people read not only to read, but almost memorized, and memorized like a stream.
Li Xi felt that compared with them, he certainly had a lot of knowledge from a traverser, and even a lot of methods, views, realms, patterns, etc., not to mention that in their lives, I am afraid that no one will be able to catch up with him in a few hundred years, and many life and even business skills that he brought from later generations are enough for them to be out of reach...... However, it is no problem for these things to make yourself a rich man, to be the minister of the country, to play with Emperor Xuanzong, to compete with Xuanzong and King Shou's father and son for women, and it is likely to face characters like Li Linfu in the future...... But it's not enough.
Therefore, now that he has the opportunity now, he can sit in the first university of the Tang Dynasty and read quietly for a few days without worrying about other books, Li Xi really cherishes it a little. Especially in his opinion, these books taught by the professor now are all good things that have remained unchanged for thousands of years, and they will be left in the future generations, if you don't read to the doctoral level of literature and history, no professor will tell you this at all, not for anything else, because you can't understand it.
Of course, it is also very difficult for Li Xi to understand the lectures of those doctors and teaching assistants of Guozixue. Although skipping classes is commonplace, it is a problem for students, and teachers are definitely good teachers.
After all, Guozixue is also the first school in the Tang Dynasty, and the people who teach here are all characters with formal state official positions, and the entire Guozixue, that is, there are only five doctors, and the official residence is on the top of the five grades, and the top of the thorn history of Zhongzhou, this knowledge and cultivation are naturally not comparable to those so-called professors who have half a bottle of water in later generations.
What should I do if I have a poor foundation and can't understand it? One word, make up!
So, he would take the textbooks sent by the school every day, seriously review and recite the content of yesterday's lecture, and then memorize the things he wants to learn in today's class by rote and know a rough idea.
At three o'clock, he took a car from his home to go to Guozi School, and sat in the carriage along the way to carefully think about the content that he had just memorized today's teaching, after all, with the foundation of the later generations, many things can still be understood after careful consideration, so if you really don't understand, you can just write it down and find the answer in the classroom teaching.
Around midnight, the carriage can arrive at Guozi School, and the class will not be late, and then it will be to listen to the class, and wait until the early afternoon to get off the class, and then take the carriage back. After eating at home at noon, you can also take a nap, as long as it is not late in the afternoon, the class at the beginning of the afternoon will become, of course, there is no one to teach in the afternoon, there will only be a direct speaker sitting in the classroom, if you have any questions, you can ask for advice at any time. However, Li Xi did not read in the afternoon and practiced calligraphy.
He himself knows his own family affairs, and even the recital to Emperor Xuanzong was handed over after his wife transcribed it.
Not to mention anything else, at least this fold is indispensable for people who are officials to write, and when they are officials, things like approvals are always indispensable, and it's easy to say, but the official document can't be taken home and let my wife help approve it, right? Therefore, this practice is really necessary, not to mention practicing a person like Zhang Xu, at least you have to be able to handle it, not too ugly, otherwise it will be a big loss of face, I am afraid that even He Zhizhang and Li Shizhi will look down on themselves.
Then, after practicing the official book for an hour in school, Shen Shichu got out of school, took a carriage home, ate, warmed the book, chatted with Li Yifeng a few words, and occasionally Luo Kedi, the shopkeeper of the Jiannan Shaochun Chang'an store, would also come over to report some things, Li Xi casually assigned to deal with it, and when the sleepiness hit, he went to bed, and the next day was like this.
Speaking of which, this is a bit of a step-by-step process, but for Li Xi, who has always been nervous since crossing over to Datang, has been working hard to start a business in a hurry, and wants to make himself an outsider to rely on a little more and have a little more psychological security, this day is already very comfortable and very leisurely.
It can even be said that it was not until the recent period of time that he felt that his heart was gradually relaxed, you see, doing business and reading, occasionally laughing with Lianlian and Miaomiao, or suddenly thinking of Shuzhou, which is three thousand miles away, thinking of Liu Wan'er, thinking of Wu Ji, thinking of Hua Nu, thinking of the dog meat lady, and even ...... Thinking of Ah Jin and Arthur, how calm and beautiful this kind of talk is. Sometimes even Li Xi feels that he is really a Tang Dynasty person now.
This kind of day is not too much, only ten days of effort, comfortable and enjoyable, gradually even listening to the lecture does not feel as hard as it was at the beginning, and even the rhythm of poetry has begun to gradually learn, everything is so beautiful.
After studying, among the more than 30 students in the class, some people finally began to be curious about Li Xi, a new student who came to listen to the class every day, and gradually, people began to come over to talk.
Although it was just a polite acquaintance, it was also a good start for Li Xi, so he dealt with it without humility or arrogance, and occasionally talked and laughed, and everyone gradually became acquainted.
At this time, Li Xi gradually knew that most of those like them, who were already seventeen or eighteen years old but had not yet come out to be an official, but only continued to study in Guozixue, were not qualified to enter Guozixue, or their families entrusted someone to recommend, or they were related to a certain big official in the court, so they borrowed face to come in.
Even if there are parents and grandparents in the family who are still officials, they have attacked Enyin, but it is just a future of eight and nine grades, which in the eyes of them who grew up at the feet of the Son of Heaven, the starting point is too low, besides, even if there are some good and short, they may not be their turn, I don't know how many people are waiting to grab it.
Therefore, in their opinion, it is better to continue to study for a few more years in this Guozi Studies, first, to accumulate some knowledge, and secondly, to look forward to the parents and grandparents can go up, and thirdly, every year, as usual, there will be Emperor Xuanzong or His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to the Chang'an Six Schools headed by Guozi Studies to test the students' knowledge.
For them, although the name Li Xi is somewhat familiar, they only know that he came from Jiannan Dao, and he was able to enter the Guozi School by borrowing the face of a grandparents, and they will not associate him with Li Xi, who has been in the limelight in Chang'an City recently.
Besides, even if Li Xi is slightly famous, it is only circulated in some small circles, and it is not so famous that it is well-known, especially the current batch of students from the Guozi Mao Choir, although they will also hear from friends or parents that there is a very high-profile person in Chang'an City who has recently appeared in Chang'an City, first with the new imperial historian Li Chang and Li Shizhi about brothers, and then on the spot did not give face to the right scattered cavalry to serve the Wang family, and the guy who openly had a hard top is extremely bullish, but for them, Most of these irrelevant gossip messages are just listened to, and no one will go to their hearts.
Therefore, for them, Li Xi is just a classmate who looks handsome and talks well, and the surname is quite harmonious, or even if they have similar interests in words, they can also be good friends, and if everyone embarks on a career in the future, they can take care of each other. In other words, Li Xi is an ordinary member of them, not a very unique one.
Of course, if things are ordinary, there must be abnormalities, Li Xi knows it, there must be someone in this class who clearly knows his origin, and it seems that he ...... No, it is certain that a man will not have that kind of voice, it must be a young woman, but the problem is that since he heard those few words of conversation in the bustling carriage flow at the gate of Guozixue that day, although Li Xi had been very careful to look for the more than thirty people in the class, he never heard that similar voice again.
Even, the thirty or so students I often see in this class are all normal, and none of them look like women dressed as men.
You must know that women wear men's clothes in the Tang Dynasty, especially in the upper aristocratic society, and women's attitude towards society and socialization is more open and resolute, and women will wear men's clothes to ride horses, go shopping, participate in bards, poetry meetings, banquets and many other social activities, but they will not deliberately pretend to be men because they wear men's clothes.
If you apply a concept of later generations, the women of the Tang Dynasty wore men's clothes, at most, it can be classified as a trend and tendency to dress up with female surnames, for example, there will be many girls in later generations who prefer some Chinese surname clothing, and it will not be like the kind played in many TV dramas in later generations, women disguise themselves to make others think they are men.
They wear men's clothes just for convenience, not to dress up as men.
Therefore, even if you walk on the street, you can often see a shirt or a bearded suit, but it is a beautiful woman with willow leaves, curved eyebrows, cherry mouth, and a slender waist.
But apparently, there is no such character in this Mao choir.
However, because many of the students in this country come and go suddenly, there are often people who come over one day, although they only listen to a class and will not appear again tomorrow, but in the end it still leads to a lot of floating population, counting on their fingers, it seems that there will always be so many or even a dozen people every day, and they will really come every day, and there are only about 20 or so people.
In this way, there seems to be an explanation, or is it that the woman happened to be here for a visit?
It's just that from that conversation, it seems that her father should have a certain understanding of herself, and even a little excited, such a person...... I don't think there should be too much.
After everyone gradually got acquainted, Li Xi turned around and asked if there would be a woman dressed as a man to come to school in this country, who knew that this question would be really rewarding.
It is said that there are quite a few female sons of adults in the court who will go to Guozixue to listen to the lectures, after all, the social status of women in the Tang Dynasty was relatively high, especially the daughters of aristocratic families, and they are not comparable to women in the countryside, and the hearts of men in the Tang Dynasty are also open-minded enough, most of the fathers and husbands will not restrict their daughters or wives from participating in some public activities that seemed to be only qualified for men in previous dynasties.
Therefore, it is not uncommon for the daughters-in-law of those big officials' families to occasionally come to listen to one or two classes. For example, several young ladies in Song Jing's family, before they got married, they used to like to go to Guozixue to listen to lectures, of course, people are already married to women now, and later several young ladies from Zhang Shuo's family, and even Li Linfu, Su Jin, He Zhizhang, Pei Yaoqing, Xiao Song, Yang Chongli and other prominent members of the court, also come often.
Even, according to a certain student, there was even a princess who came, but he couldn't give an example, because even if the daughters-in-law of other people came here to listen to the class, they didn't come often, so they didn't know the people here very well, and they came occasionally, and they didn't talk to the people here, but just listened to the class and left, so although the person said so, no matter Li Xi or others, they only listened to it as a joke.
All in all, it is no accident that a woman comes to Guozi to attend classes, and it is a very normal and common thing...... So, from this point of view, there is still no way to check.
In the end, more than ten days passed, although Li Xi was still curious in his heart, but as he gradually integrated into here, the few strange conversations he heard at that time gradually faded away.
However, just when he was about to forget, one day, he suddenly heard that crisp voice again.
That day, as soon as Li Xi walked into the classroom, before the doctor came to class, he walked to the desk he was used to sitting at and sat down, opened his schoolbag, and took out pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and textbooks. Then, all of a sudden, he heard the voice soundโ"Hey, it's said that you're good at poetry, is that true?" โ
(To be continued)